Our system has regained full capabilities; overall we cancelled 43 flights of the 250 that were impacted from Friday’s outage.

Our Customers may experience some delays today due to the system outage that occurred Friday evening. We’ve cancelled 14 flights on Saturday due to Flight Crew availability and aircraft positioning.

We encourage Customers to check their flight status on southwest.com prior to arriving to the airport.

Original posting: A number of Southwest Airlines flights were delayed or cancelled late Friday, mainly in the western part of the United States, after the carrier’s computer system began acting up. The problems forced Southwest to stop flights from taking off for a while.

Southwest put out this statement Saturday morning:

On Friday, June 21, Southwest Airlines experienced a systemwide computer outage impacting a number of flights and customers. Southwest systems are working at full capacity but flights are expected to be impacted on Saturday, June 22. The people of Southwest are working hard to accommodate those impacted and encourage our customers to check their flight status prior to arriving to the airport.

The Associated Press reported that Southwest cancelled 50 flights late Fiday and 14 on Saturday. The 50 would represent about 1.5 percent of its approximately 3,400 flights scheduled on a normal Friday.

Looking at FlightStats.com, it seems that many flights were delayed but not many were cancelled.

We saw some late delays but no cancellations out of Dallas Love Field on Friday evening. Its flight day had been largely finished before the computer issues. But there was still a lot of flying left for the West Coast.

At Los Angeles International, Southwest had 19 departing flights that were at least two hours late arriving at their destination, according to FlightStats.com. At Las Vegas, 24 flights were delayed at least two hours, with a number of others delayed at least an hour.